Product Description
“You’ll never get rich working for someone else.” No one knows this better than William J. Bond. His popular Home-Based Business series has shown thousands how to successfully operate mail order, catalog, and newsletter businesses from home. Now he’s adding Going Solo to the series. Going Solo shows readers how to take their specialized knowledge-gathered from a job, career, education, or life experiences-and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. Writte… More >>
Going Solo: Developing a Home-Based Consulting Business from the Ground Up
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#1 by Rolf Dobelli on April 25, 2010 - 5:21 pm
William J. Bond presents a guide for people who want to become home-based consultants. His manual covers every aspect of freelance consulting, from finding, landing, and keeping clients, to maintaining records and understanding the marketplace. This common-sense book is part narrative and part workbook, including questionnaires and fill-in list forms. It is detailed, but if you have any experience as a solo practitioner, the elementary basic business practices outlined may cover material you already know. We at getAbstract recommend this book as a primer for anyone who wants to become a consultant working from a home-office and to those who are already doing exactly that and would like a few more tips about how to make a better living at it.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on April 25, 2010 - 7:07 pm
I just finished reading Going Solo, and by the time I was finished, I had a fairly complete business plan already completed. Not only did this book contain valuable information, it also stimulated pages of ideas and things to do. I definitely recommend reading this book with a pen and notebook handy.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on April 25, 2010 - 7:23 pm
If you really are just starting out and have no clue what you’re doing then this book might be helpful. Might. For me, most of the book was too vague to be useful. Comments to the effect of “choose the best possible system [or arrangement] for X” drove me crazy. What, in his opinion, is the best system, and why? Also, the sentences were so short and basic that I felt like I was in grammar school. This book might serve as a useful checklist for things to think about, but I didn’t find many answers or very good advice. Skim it at the library.
Rating: 2 / 5